Looking for a Full Tang Puukko!

Puukkos don't have full tangs. They are native to Scandinavia where there is a lot of cold weather and a full tang would chill your hand.
 
I guess this might be called a "partial full tang"?
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Daniel Koster makes some full tang scandi ground knives. He sells batches of them on the forum and you can find them used in the exchange often as well.

He calls it the "Bushcrafter."
 
I guess this might be called a "partial full tang"?

I've heard that called a mortise tang.
 
I have the Helle pictured above and an Enzo. Both are awesome. You won't be disappointed with either.
 
Disregarding the tang, there is more to ta puukko than a scandi grind. The Woodlore pattern bushcraft knife is most certainly not a puukko, though in use they should be fairly comparable. I suppose it depends on what the OP really wants, but I would recommend a few things:

1: the Helle Temagami is pretty good if you're looking for a traditional-ish puukko-ish design.

2: The BCNW O1 might fit your needs as well. To my eye, the blade is very puukko-like

3: I would reconsider why you feel you really need a full tang. I have dealt a lot of abuse to my Frost's Mora Craftsman, which has (had I guess...), I believe, the shortest tang among these knives. As noted above, the puukko is made with a hidden tang for a reason.
 
Are you looking for natural handle materials only?

If micarta is okay, Blind horse knives makes a "boat tail scandi" with a full tang. (A little more of a traditional shape)

Never tried it myself.
 
I think the thing that really draws me to the "puukko style" is the simple, comfortable handle and the blade shape especially. I just find it hard to believe that making it a stick tang would make your hands that much warmer than a full tang knife.
 
Dutch253 said:
I just find it hard to believe that making it a stick tang would make your hands that much warmer than a full tang knife.
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I like them too. What you have to realize is that the innovators of these knives live and work in subarctic and sometimes even arctic conditions. When using a knife, sometimes it's beneficial to use it without your gloves or mittens, such as dressing game or doing delicate work. An exposed tang would literally stick to your skin at the temperatures they are dealing with.

That may not be an issue for you, and I know it's not for me most of the time. It is, however, something worth noting in this particular style of knife's design.
 
Waking up to a cold morning and making breakfast becomes much more inviting in the outdoors when you have a nice round/soft/warm wooden handle to curl you fingers around.

It isn't a deal breaker, but comfort has its advantages.

I would like to see a full tang knife shaped exactly like a Classic wooden Mora. The exposed tang would have to be rounded to follow the curvature of classic barrel/ oval shape. Still, I don't think it would be quite as comfortable, though probably close.
 
Dutch253 said:
I think the thing that really draws me to the "puukko style" is the simple, comfortable handle and the blade shape especially. I just find it hard to believe that making it a stick tang would make your hands that much warmer than a full tang knife.
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Think about a piece of metal against your bare hand skin at -40° C than just concider how much heat you would loose from this contact. The more heat you loose the faster you'll become tired and less concentrate on the work.

Just to give you a comaprison a piece of steel would conduct heat out of your body about 20 times faster than a piece of ice...
 
Dutch253 said:
I think the thing that really draws me to the "puukko style" is the simple, comfortable handle and the blade shape especially. I just find it hard to believe that making it a stick tang would make your hands that much warmer than a full tang knife.
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It really depends where you live and plan to use the knife. In the Arctic regions where Puukkos were "born", touching bare skin to exposed metal can mean instant freezing & loss of a chunk of your hand. This is why the traditional Nordic knives have fully covered & insulated tangs. Stick tang puukkos have held-up to hard use in the most extreme conditions, so don't think of stick tangs as a design flaw.

Not everyone lives in such drastic conditions of course, so most of us can have our puukkos with an exposed full tang. My favorite contemporary interpretation of a puukko is made by Kaleb of Muskrat Man Knives. I easily strop it to scary sharp, it sits with a bushcraft knife that I had made at the same time.

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